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The Export of Disease

Shantanu Dutta October 3, 2006

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#4 Posted by bjkumar on February 22, 2007 7:02:14 pm
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#3 Posted by kakolukiyum on October 4, 2006 11:04:48 am
A couple of years ago, the then Vice-Chancellor of AMU (Nasim Ahmed, probably) was leading the polio-vaccine drive in the muslim slums of Bhujpura and Shahjamal where many polio cases had been reported. Also included in that group were a few Jamaati maulanas. They went door-to-door, convincing the residents to the need for vaccinating their children (many of the residents had fled). Even though some residents tried to say that the vaccines were a conspiracy, they were trumped by the presence of the maulanas and the VC. That effort was fairly successful and this year Aligarh only had one confirmed case of infantile polio. I guess that the trust deficit, in combination with abysmal sanitary standards, grinding poverty and illiteracy is keeping polio virus alive and anti-polio campaigns unsucessful in that part of UP among poor muslim communities. Any successful effort will need to include a wide range of concerned people, and not only the government workers.
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